Avicii (music group)

For those lacking the funds, the time or the fake-fur leggings to attend the Electric Daisy Carnival, an annual electronic dance music bacchanal in Las Vegas, the new infomercial-style documentary "Under the Electric Sky," produced by the event's organizers, might suffice.

The film is a valentine to the music and the people who love it — the true "headliners," as Pasquale Rotella, founder of event producer Insomniac Events, calls the crowd. They fill the grounds of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway to the tune of about 133,000 turnstile-turns a night over the course of three evenings.

The movie presents the best possible version of the event without the...

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